Founded | 2006 |
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Team principal(s) | Jacob Greaves |
Current series |
European Le Mans Series 24 Hours of Le Mans |
Former series | FIA World Endurance Championship 2012-2013 |
Noted drivers |
Memo Rojas Kuba Giermaziak Julien Canal Gary Hirsch Jon Lancaster Bjorn Wirdheim Tom Kimber-Smith Matt McMurry Chris Dyson Jann Mardenborough Michael Krumm Lucas Ordóñez Alexander Rossi Alex Brundle Martin Brundle Karin Ojjeh Olivier Lombard Robin Liddell Gunnar Jeannette Ben Devlin Michael Vergers Stuart Moseley |
Teams' Championships |
2015 European Le Mans Series 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, LM P2 category 2011 Le Mans Series, LM P2 category |
Drivers' Championships |
2015 European Le Mans Series overall champions (Jon Lancaster, Gary Hirsch and Bjorn Wirdheim). 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, LMP2 category (Karim Ojjeh, Olivier Lombard and Tom Kimber-Smith) 2011 Le Mans Series, LMP2 category (Karim Ojjeh and Tom Kimber-Smith) |
Greaves Motorsport is a British racing team, currently competing in the European Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2006, Greaves Motorsport, founded and run by Tim Greaves, entered the Le Mans Series (LMS) for the first time, running a Radical SR9 in conjunction with Radical, and competing under the Bruichladdich Radical banner. After four years of Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S/2 in 2010 to replace the old Radical SR9. In 2011, the team became known as Greaves Motorsport, and they switched to the new Zytek Z11SN, winning the LMP2 category of both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Le Mans Series. For 2012, they entered the new European Le Mans Series (ELMS) and FEndurance Championship (WEC), finishing third in the LMP2 category of the ELMS, and fifth in the WEC.
In 2006, it was announced that Greaves Motorsport would be running the works Radical team in the Le Mans Series (LMS), with Tim Greaves and Stuart Moseley driving a LMP2-class Radical SR9-AER under the Bruichladdich Radical banner. The team entered the 1000 km of Nürburgring, and finished fifteenth overall, fifth in class.Ben Devlin joined the team for the following round, the 1000 km of Donington, but the team retired after 151 laps. Following this race, the team entered Greaves, Moseley, Ben Devlin and Colin McRae in the inaugural round of the Radical World Cup. McRae's weekend proved unsuccessful, as he retired from the first race, and finished eleventh in the second. Having returned to the LMS, the team retired from the season's final race, the 1000 km of Jarama, after 27 laps. Following this, Moseley and Michael Vergers were entered in the American Le Mans Series season finale at Laguna Seca, where they finished 22nd, and fifth in class.